Very basic but need help copying files!! Please help!

tomorrowtoday101

I have just started learning the language. I want to copy a file from one location to another on the instance of a mouse click in a windows form. I have been trying to use the File.Copy function or just COPY or COPYFiles and none of these work. When I try to build it says File not declared or COPY not declared. What is that all about? In all the books it says you don't need to make a new instance of file since it is already a static class. I am very confused. also need help on how to read in keyboard input from a textbox in a wondows form. I know I am a very basic user and this should be easy but I have no idea what I'm doing. Thanks

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Ben23y ago
1) About the copying, you could also put : using System.IO; at the beginning of your code (with the rest of the using statements), and then you could use the File.Copy later in your program. This would be especially useful if you are planning on using a lot of stuff from the IO namespace (i.e. file reading and writing). 2)I'm a little confused about reading the characters, do you want to A: Read the contents of a TextBox. B: Read ALL of the keys the user types while using your program. C: Just read the keys from the TextBoxes that the user is typing in. Please answer, and try to help you (if someone doesn't get to it first!)
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tomorrowtoday10123y ago
Hey thanks a lot. That was what I was looking for on the copy files part. Does anyone know how to read in characters or read in keyboard input when they fill information out in a form?
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kovan23y ago
System.IO.File.Copy(@"c:\test.txt", @"d:\test.txt", true) //overwrite the file if it exists
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